It is clearly 'nob' and not 'knob'

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Am worried about my sanity - am getting increasingly upset with people posting knob or knobhead - when clearly they mean nob or nobhead or nobber etc.

It is a nob - not a door knob...

Please tell me it doesn't matter and I should calm down

Nope - 'knob' = penis in this sense...

I completely disagree

Nob = penis

Knob = something you have on your drawers

Knob = penis in my house

Hob Knob

Nob of butter?

I have seen it both ways and tbh would normally spell it with the 'k'. However think your sanity will survive

PS it doesn't matter so calm down

see nob of butter so doesn't work - so must be Knob... - I can't speak for ridculous naming of bicuits - I blame the ad men

But that is my point - Nob = penis and only penis... Knob is for other domestic uses

No, knobs can be in your (well, some people's) drawers as well as on them. Honestly, it's in the OED.

I just realized that I said 'nope' in Pedants' Corner. Am waiting for the knock on the door.

reality I agree with Nob = posh twat - but because posh twat = Penis?! no?

ha ha - i can actually see I may be losing this on - but it still drives me mad

frumpy Nob discussions are the best

Knob of butter - all the same word = lumps! In the case of the penis it refers to the, er, end.

Nob, see RealityKindaLingers, above.

Hob-nob - completely irrelevant!

Listen you lot - the urban Dictionary says it is so:

Nob

So I'm clearly just more cool than everyone else - with your fancy OED definitions

at rounded protuberance

Hob-nobs must be posh biscuits then.

Slang dictionary is with me, but allows you a variant spelling.

Ha.

Lemon you see I knew I was right - spelling it knob is clearly the uncool way...

Yes, but since when has this been 'Cool Corner'?

Time for a lie down.

dittany I know - but that is the way nobbers spell it

...Or perhaps a biscuit.

lemon I have got to win somehow though. How will I live it down otherwise. So cool it is.

Are you hoping to have the last word?

Cool, but not Correct.

As correct as knob is, I think - but edging it as preferred spelling of cool people.

Anyway - moving on am thinking of starting a thread on people spelling Poo as Pooh - which also annoys me...

That and the longstanding affect/ effect issue - which is frankly stressful.

I saw this sign in the local gym last night.

TENNIS NOTICE
All Gary's Lesson's.
All Gary's lessons are cancelled from Saturday 20th March-27th March.
Saturday lessons 20th March 8:30-11:30am as normal.
Sorry for any inconvenience.

Would it have been wrong to have crossed out the word 'inconvenience' and written in 'incoherence'?

I have so many questions. Why use the possessive 's in the first line if you get it right in the second line? Why not address the notice to 'Gary's Students'? Are the 8:30-11:30 lessons with Gary? If they are, then you shouldn't say all his lessons on that date are cancelled (because they aren't). If those lessons aren't with Gary, why are they mentioned in this notice to Gary's students?

Why do I care? I don't play tennis!